Jazoon 2013 – Spring Framework 4.0 – The Next Generation

Spring, which has moved to http://spring.io/, is going to version 4 which means they add support for Java SE 8 and Java EE 7.

As a Spring developer, this means better Groovy support, being able to use lambda expressions and method references in Spring callbacks, support for “JSR-310 Date-Time types for data binding & formatting, a new @Conditional mechanism for bean definitions, & a new WebSocket endpoint model.”

Things that I took home from this talk:

Spring Boot is a new project to make it easier to set up “Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.”

@Lazy is now supported to annotate the place where a bean is injected (formerly, you could only use it to make it lazy at the definition)